HALO Showrunner Steven Kane to Depart Paramount+ Series After First Season

The Paramount+ series Halo is experiencing yet another shakeup before it even airs its first season. The series, which is based on the video game, has gone through its share of growing pains as it came into existence, and now its showrunner Steven Kane has announced that he will be departing after the first season.

Deadline reports that Kyle Kinnen was originally set as co-showrunner alongside Kane when the series was picked up by Showtime in 2018. He left before production. Planet of the Apes director Rupert Wyatt was set to helm the series, but in December 2018, he exited the series due to a conflict, Showtime’s Gary Levine revealed. Months later Showtime revealed it has enlisted Otto Bathurst to fill Wyatt’s role. Earlier this year Deadline learned exclusively that the series moved to Paramount+.

Kane took the job in 2019, and it was expected he’d be in Budapest for around seven months, but due to Covid and production delays, he spent nearly two years off and on in Hungary and is understood to be keen to get back to LA to focus on new projects.

The show has definitely been through a lot, but hopefully it will be a success for the fans who are looking forward to it. Halo started production in February in Budapest and is slated to air in the first quarter of 2022.